Maplewood Nursing Home: A Change Management Plan Report for Nurses

The assignment presents a change implementation and management plan for Maplewood Nursing Home, addressing the challenges posed by a nursing shortage. The plan focuses on strategic and structural changes, including career development and investment in nursing education, to enhance the quality of healthcare services. The report outlines the impact on various stakeholders, such as patients, doctors, nurses, and management, and proposes a change management team to oversee the process. It includes a communication plan using social media and television advertisements, along with risk mitigation strategies involving the hiring of skilled professionals. The conclusion emphasizes the overall benefits of the implemented strategies, aiming to improve healthcare services for patients. The report references relevant literature on change management principles and practices.

Change Implementation and
Management Plan

Executive summary
Maplewood Nursing
Home is currently
facing issues in the
demand and supply for
health care services
due to the shortage of
efficient nursing
practitioners.

Description and Justifications of the change
• Maplewood Nursing Home can apply change
management strategy like ‘career development
and invest in nursing education’ to overcome a
problem like the nursing shortage.
• Development of existing junior nurses will help
the organisation to provide better medical
facilities or services to the maximum patient.

Type and scope of the proposed change
• This type of change is related to structural
change as well as strategic change
• This change will help the organization to
expand throughout the country.

Stakeholders impacted by the change and
Change management team
Stakeholders
• Patients
• Doctors
• Nurses
• Board of directors
• Management staff
• Other investors
Change management team
• Departmental head
• Doctors
• Sr. nurses
• Higher management staff

Plan for communicating the change and risk
mitigation
Communication plan
• Using social media sites
• Television advertisement
Risk mitigation
• Communication and information transfer.
• Hiring skilled and experienced doctors and trainers

Conclusion
By implementing this strategy everyone will get
benefits in different ways. Overall the country
can able to serve better medical services to
the patients.

References
• Van der Voet, J., & Vermeeren, B. (2017). Change
management in hard times: Can change management
mitigate the negative relationship between cutbacks and
the organizational commitment and work engagement
of public sector employees?. The American Review of
Public Administration, 47(2), 230-252.
• Cummings, S., Bridgman, T., & Brown, K. G. (2016).
Unfreezing change as three steps: Rethinking Kurt
Lewin’s legacy for change management. Human
relations, 69(1), 33-60.